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Socialism and the American
Schoolboy
One of the most entertaining prac?
tices of our Socialist revolutionaries is
to wave one copy of tho Constitution
frantically aloft as a protector of their
doings while kicking another copy around
the floor like a houn' dog.
Touching the imprisonment of Eugene
V. Debs for a violation of the espionage
act, one local advocate of "the revolu?
tion," The Call, fairly froths with pas?
sionate words about "free speech." It
capitalizes the final words of Debs: "I :
enter the prison doors a flaming revolu?
tionist?my head erect, my spirit un?
tamed and my soul unconquered." And
it makes the interesting point that this
incarceration of April 13 occurred on
"the anniversary of the Battle of Lex?
ington, which began the American Rev?
olution for Independence."
This is all very pretty?as pretty as it
is inconsistent. The persuasive power
exerted by a flaming revolutionist who
argues glibly about his constitutional |
rights cannot, in the nature of things be
great. And in this cas;1, as ever, the elo?
quent Socialist revolutionary making the
appeal to old Americanism reveals an
unfortunate lack of acquaintance with
his facts'. American free speech was
never designed to protect such inflam?
matory incitements as those of our Reds.
U never meant the sort ?%'' license to ad
vocale riot and disorder in which our
radical Sociali ts specialize. Least of all
was it designed to hobblo tho govern?
ment in time of war and prevent it from
: i he . t?'i "? noce: ary to self pros
ervation, Our radicals ave fond of quot?
ing Lincoln, l>uj, they never mention the
fact thai hi cl< ?ed ?'town The New York
for two ?lays for printing a forged
proclamation in war time.
The truth is that Mr. David Karsner,
who writ?-- so feelingly in The Call of
American free speech and the Battle of
Lexington, has only a smattering of true
Americai i? m. Re has tho phrases on
his tongue, but nothing of true, historic
Americanism in his mind or heart. It is
all matter, but he even blunders in
his date for the Battle of Lexington,
which v ? ? t fought on. April 1.5, as
Mr. Karsner seems to think, but on April
19, as any American schoolboy can tell
We make the suggestion for what it is
worth, 1 ut wouldn't it help the revolu
keep them from petting
quit, .: the face with vexation at
American workingmen for refusing to
follow the light if they took a grammar
school course in American history and
avoided obvious blunders by learning a
few elemental notions about America,
past and present? Or would that pre- j
vent them from being radicals at all?
The Manacled Eighty
The eighty members of tho Assembly ?
who attended the Sv . aTirj
agreed not to permit the health insur?
ance bill or the other welfare measures
to come to a ? , l.-f.. .,,, r^
publicans, bul ]y they are little
interested in th ... rtv
The - ?? ? ? of Speaker Sweet In
bihftlf < ( ? ty \h impudent. This
statemf' "refuse
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gence iiliko demand that the Assembly
autocracy bo smashed.
Here's No Relief
The proposal to limit the tax levy on
real estate to 2 per cent has been re?
ported as part of the revenue bill at Al?
bany, and there is possibility of its
passage.
The rider means a loss of S 18,000,000
in the revenue of the city, and this in?
volves the imposition of other taxes to
an equal amount. The New York rent
payer is uneasy. He is agitating for a
lessening of burdens. Yet it is proposed
to relieve the landlords to the extent of
$18,000,000 and to pet the sum otherwise
from the rent payers, who constitute the
general public.
Familiar taxation principles teach that
taxation of real estate?at least of land
?is not paid in a continuing way by a
land owner. When a levy is a perma?
nent one a purchaser takes notice, and
pays less for the property he buys. A
new and higher tax level confiscates land
values sufficiently to provide a fund
which, at interest, produces enough to
meet the tax. But, hit once, the land
owner is not hit again. Conversely,
when the new level is lower the land
owner finds the value of his holdings
added to.
An expert like Professor Seligman,
applying the principles expounded in his
"Incidence of Taxation," would estimate
that the capital gift to the land owners of
the city through a permanent decrease of
$18,000,000 a year in taxation would be
something like ??300,000,000. Does jus?
tice require that a present of such mag?
nitude be made to the land owners of the
city?
AH a Friend Claims
Concerning the covenant Walter Lipp- :
mann, collator of the data Colonel House ?
took to Europe, may be assumed to
speak with some authority. It. is there?
fore interesting to note his claims for
the instrument.
In Mr. Lippmann's analysis, published
since his return from Paris, it appears
that he mentions but one affirmative or
substantive thing provided by it, and
this is it:
"They 'the covenant writers'! provided,
therefore, first of ?11 for the presence
in one city of men who can rm-ak for !
the government: ."
This is the only claim or specific
merit. Nothing else is mentioned. There
is no second ?tern. The delegates, or
ambassadors, arc to assemble at one
place and to transact business face to
face instead of through embassies as
now, with more or less criss-cross cor?
respondence and opportunity for.mis?
understanding. By failing to speak of
any other good thing Mr. Lippmann im
plies that this unifying o( diplomacy is
the only definite gain the covenant
brings. His sense of candor, a candor
which others might imitate, prevents his
making any other or larger claim.
It may be of benefit to have the am?
bassadors under one roof, but the his?
tory of European congresses, with their
temporary coming together of ambassa?
dors, does not suggest any diminution
of intrigue. Home office diplomacy has
a bad name, but not so bad as congress
diplomacy. Vienna, Aix la Chapelle, Ber?
lin?these are not savory names, yet at
these places ambassadors met face to
face. If there is advantage in rapidity
of counsel at a joint meeting, there is
more opportunity for the whispered and
unrecorded word. Note writing may not
be wholly admirable, but to put things
down in black and white with the cer?
tainty that some day they will be pub?
lished is sobering.
But granted that it is well to have a
Delphi, as the (?reek world had one,
surely it is torturing language to call
an agreement to send ambassadors to
one place a league to enforce peace.
If the designation of a common meet?
ing place is all there is to the covenant
the great hope of the world is fed on
a meagre diet. Something more than
this was expected by those who prayed
for institutions of peace. A highfaluting
preamble does not meet the demand for
a world machine that would give vitality
to the words "Never airain!" An am?
bassadorial council holds out no promise
of disarmament and of assured peace.
The Proletarian Illusion
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100,000 oldtimo aristocrats.
Tlie best sterilization against Bol?
shevism is accurate and truthful descrip?
tions of its effects. If it has reduced
Russia in eighteen months from condi?
tions of relative plenty to the edges of
starvation (and that it has L?nine ad?
mits when he hogs for iood), what would
be the effect in countries of less ample
food supplies? Rioters would, of course,
be able to seize and gorge for a few days
on such supplies a. exist, but what then?
Crops ?are not raised by passing resolu?
tions. Perhaps the best way to cure
Germany of Bolshevism is to let lier try
it. To try to feed Bolshevism out of a
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people is clearly folly. If L?nine is able
to get the Russian stomachs filled from
abroad he will, of course, say: "Have I
not taken care of you? Great is Bol?
shevism, an?! I am its prophet!"
Patriotism as imperialism
It may be doubted if President Wilson
will appreciate the distinction which '
Humanit?, the French ?Socialist organ,
draws between him and the. three prime
ministers with whom lie is in daily con?
sultation. Humanit? declares that it
still thinks highly of him despite his
concessions to imperialism. But in the
others it can put no trust. "We know
what they are worth?they are each for
his country, the very incarnation of im?
perialism."
This is a very clear and simple defini?
tion of patriotism, which is being for
one's country. Imperialism is its syno?
nyme. The alternative, of course, is in?
ternationalism, which is caring for every
other country as much as for your own
?sometimes, if the words of interna?
tionalism be a criterion, rather more
than for your own. That is the attitude
which Humanit? would apparently im?
pute to the President.
Mr. Wilson has had ample reason on
many occasions to pray to be delivered
from his friends. He may well regard
this attempted compliment from Hu?
manit? as anything but complimentary.
The picture of the head of the American
mission as one who, unlike his col?
leagues, is not for his country is scarce?
ly engaging.
Nev/ York's Side Shows
It is nothing new in the life of our
old town, but we do think a word of meek
protest is demanded hy the tidings that
New York is to be one of the freaks ?it
tho Methodist Missions' centenary cele?
bration. Traffic policemen, the Statue of
Liberty an I a near-snloon are among the
tidbits of New Y rk's vie intime to be
exhibit, ?I along w il h igloos and pueblos
and oilier "strange sights and people"
from all the world. No doubt a slum
and a gunman and the library lions will
be added.
What we object to in ?he statement
Ihal of the 250,000 Mi.idle Western spec?
tators who are expected fo visit the show
al Columbus, Ohio, next ?Tune, only a
few have ever visited New York or are
familiar with these metropolitan mys?
teries. What we mean to say i*- thai
New York holds nothing mysterious or
awful or expensive or jazzy which 100
Middle Westerners have rot visited for
every one New Yorker.
Wc leave out the hotels as net. a fair
question. Nobody knows the hotels in
his home town?or should know them,
that is. We have in mind more legiti?
mate objects of research??"rare and
curious,'' as the book catalogues say?
those queer little shops where you rrm
get imitation Russian kettles for only
four times what they are worth; that
jolly little Italian restaurant where Mr.
Caruso is supposed to dine and may even
have done so once; the Aquarium; that
private dancing chili at ? -'s, where
everybody dances with everybody else
and nobody is supposed to be respect?
able but everybody is. And so on down
the row of sido shows.
On the word of countless visitors from
the Middle West New York is replete
with these shows. Once in a decade a
New Yorker is caught without an excuse
and is led into one of them. But of his
own initiative a New Yorker would as
soon be shot as visit the Statue of Lib?
erty or go up the Woolworth Tower or
eat anywhere except at one or two mild
spot't where he has learned what can he
eaten with a minimum of risk and ex
pense and how to intimidate the hat
check boy into letting him keep hi:; hat,
and stick if. under his chair.
The hj.- show under the big tent i I
about1 al! New Yorkers have time for, or
third- they have time f'<r. 'I hey n
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When you and I were pally
?How Ion? opn it creniB ! -
Wo tramped MacDougal Alley
And Bpoko of life and dreams.
Through nil the arts we wended
Our near-bohemlan way.
And now the chapter's ended:
You're Someone's fianc?e.
For all those sprightly playtimes,
For ail our youthful prank.-',
For memories of gay times,
Sweet lady, take my thanks.
Life is more fair for brooding
On a dead but lovely hour.
My thanks for all . . . Including
This entr?e to the 'lower., ISOSCELES.
Former Senator Bailey speaks of the
President's socialistic tendencies, but the
Socialista arc conscious of no Woodrovian
i tendency in their direction. Our feeling
is that you can't picar some of the So?
cialists all the time, you can't please all
' of the Socialists some of the time, and
: you can't please any of the Socialists any
; of Ihn timo.
"'Whom Are You?' Said Cyril"
[From the Herald I
Honolulu has a girl swimmer whom It be?
lieves is a coming champion in the sprints.
Still, even so careful n writer of Eng?
lish as the Sun's -Mr. F. Ward O'Malley
speaks of "a lady whom Secretary Zirald
said wore a green and gold lace gown."
by m means
Sin Would it bs breaking the
rnlo to say tha? the type of
League the Germans want to
set up is 14-pt. Gothic?
A. R. F.
Tilings are 3cldom what they seem, ns
Gilbert lyrically observed. Hut when the
Pre; ident sends for the George Washing?
ton, that, to I'. B., seems like Lohengrin
ling ? r I swan.
"Loquacious Man"
i \ seven-cornered poker came is In progress j
and has been for two hours. There are four !
women and three men. Two of the men are
' " bands of two of the ?omen, the third Is a
hacheli ?? who couldn't escape. The women are
all winners. The remarks vji Italics are from '
the men.?
"A quarter limit makes a sensible p?me, !
and no one ever gets hurt unless they have
an awful run of luck, and oven then not
badly, And tho bet I part of it is you
don't havo to keep your mind on it all '
time. 1 p to nie? I'll ct^^n for n quar?
ter, Oh, yi i, I was telling you she (javo
i i u i heck for $18 and it cumo bnck
no funds,"
?' '.'? it funny (hit Client, r can't win11
I I ; ' 'lier like him, Lot of USQ n( toy
v. inning. I lon't 11 ink you cm pay mo off
with n promise, dearie, even if you uro
my husbund, >Vnd poor Mr, Squill hnsn'l
had a hand to night, You raise no?? Once
more, a' you. i all? Thrco jacks and a
pair of nine'! is all I have."
" /',' r ffl C/OOd."
"Well, unlucky at cards lucky in love,
they ray. i f that's any comfort to you.
for my part I'M take the card luck
: run a chance on the love luck. I
suppo ' ! une one ?a th inking it's a good
thin.fr I'm easily pleased. Oh, I have si-,
cards and I simply refuse to have, my
hi d declared dead. It's too good."
" // ere are two a ?
"loi", h-- the old Aunt Anit"? Always
croaking about some one brincr shy. If i
h< ("er WON a pot, he MIGHT be ?nter
? ted. Oil, well, I'M he one to come up
because I'm such a (rood winner, though
I know ! put up once. Anything to keep
it a good naturcd game. Ha! Ha! Ha! lia!
You men ail play as if your lives de?
pended upon it. I ?? it opened ? Of course
I'm in. Doesn't poker seem silly after an
.-.: '< moon of Aucl ion ? But it IS rest ful.
l'p to me? Twentj five cents more. Only
call nn ? All black, as you men say."
"That's good."
"I'll cash in ten dollars.' worth if any one
needs chipa. Four Staccy. 1 certainly
have the Indian sign on him. Hasn't
beaten mo to-night, and once when ho had
those two pair remember??ha didn't call
and I didn't have a thing. Serves you men
right."
"Somebody's shy." AMBROSE GLUTZ.
Repetition wearies tho baseball writer,
of course, which in whv "initial sack,"
"willow," arid similar variants are used. :
And, according to our own sports page, las(
Monday's game la ?ted "1 hour and 60
es."
Wo are willing to bet a quart of Pom?
mard against a glass of wild cherry phos
ho says I hour and CO
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By Arthur S. Draper
(London Correspondent of The Tribune)
? ONDON, April 5. War makes strange ?
bedfellows. The Slav and the Lut m
fight shoulder to shoulder; the Occidental
and the Oriental suffer together in the
piercing cold of Siberia and occupy adjoin?
ing seats at the peace table. Prejudices
centuries old have been suppressed and
alliances racially, geographically, psycho?
logically impossible have been formed.
Take the recent report of the joint indus?
trial conference which is a direct re
of the national indi itria! conference held
here in February. This committee included
employers representing great engineering
concerns, clothing manufacturers, shipping
industries, leather, rubber and pottery
works, on ono sido, and on the other the
employes engaged in these and other
trades. It was a. new departure in British
industrial life; it was a revolutionary Btep
tnkon m n m imcnl of national cri is, On
this committed sat mon who counted their
fortunes in the millions and men who I
to make four pounds a wocli support n fani
i'y of eight, On the ? n ' sido v ero
i roo kii ighl .'? nnd on t ho worker ??' : wo e x
? 'abincl :.i ini ' i ' .i ml I he same number of i
w omen.
On i ' i? committee capital and tabor had
equal numerical representation, but when
they r;ime to draw the report there was no
division. The committee Issued a unani?
mous report. That fact mu t be borne in .'
mind when reading this recoi imcndal ion on
the question of working hours to the Lloyd
i ;< orge government :
A 48-Hour Working Week
"in regard to hours the committee are
unanimous in recommending the principle
of a !e?.::il maximum of normal hours per
week for nil employee) persons. Th<
ber i f hour.; they rccommei d is fortj eigl ',
but they recognize that this number may
!.. ? reduced by agreement, and that there I
are also exceptional cases in which it may
be necessary that it should bo increased.
"They accordingly sugg? I I t legal
sanction should be given to trade
ments for t he rcducl ion of 1 nd thai
und T certain ? ? ? i '.: I <? similar sand
might bo given to such for the
augment a tion of hour . "? : ey propi
>. f : here b ! a d ? ? re fo r \ iriation ex ; i
by one party only a conference should be
summoned whose decision should under or?
dinary circumstances receive legal sanc?
tion.
"They have not deemed it possible with- !
in the terms at their disposal, nnr did they
feel competent, to draw up a li.;t of pro- ?
posed exemptions, but they consider that an :
interval should elapse after the parsing of
the act in which applications for cMemp
tions should bo made and that inquiry
should then take place into each case, and
the application of the net should, if neees
snry, bo postponed in nay particular case
until th" completion of such inquiry.
"Thu < some occ may he alt
er exempted from the act, while In i
? .. maximum may be varied in either diJ
reel ion by agree ment bctwi i
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public notice of its proposed findings and
shall hear representatives of any trade that
may desire to be heard.
"7. Where an agreement is arrived fit be?
tween representativo organizations of em?
ployers and trade unions in any trade lay?
ing down a minimum rate of wages, the
Minister of Labor shall have power, after
investigation, to apply such minimum rate,
with such modification as he may think fit,
i i all employes engaged in the trade fall?
ing within the scope of the agreement."
Alleviating Unemployment
At tho present time too British govern- ?
nient is expending- moro than $5,000,000 a
week in unemployment bonuses which i
range from $o.",'i> for- a woman to $6.25 for a
mail. Tho latest figures show that this j
money is being distributed among 444,277
men, 48(3,{145 women, 26,827 boys and 31,070
'ort unatoly, tho government be
Hevea th?3 nu m bor will increase before tbe
reorganization of Industrial life has reached
the pom: whoro tho factories can absorb
tho majority of tho worker . It Is difficult
at this timo to e ti mat o v hat t ho "m ini
niutn" wage will bo, but, allowing for the
dec it;, io i 'i the c. ? of living v. I? ich M r.
Bonar Law rather confidently prophesied n
few days ago, it i'? certain that the figure
will be weil above the government's present
unemployment allowance, which, by the
way, continues until the end of the summer.
To alleviate unemployment this industrial
committee recommends the cutting down of :
ovi rtim . tl e establishment of two shifts; \
the adoption by the government of a com?
prehensive housing programme, which
would furnish work to a great number of
employes and also relievo the present
shortage <??'' living accommodations; the
state development of new industries, such
as affon tat i n, reclamation of waste
lands, and the development of inland
waterways.
The End of Child Lahor
This paragraph is devoted to the "Limita?
tion of Child Labor":
"The committee are oP opinion that child
labor is; had in principio and in practice
ti .'ois to decrease the chances of adult em?
ployment. For these reasons, without going
into details, the committee think that the
acre at which a child should enter employ?
ment should bo raised beyond the present
limit" (fourteen years).
Oil Companies' Denial
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The New York Tribune of April 11
has again published a damaging misstate- ;
ittributed to L. .T. de Bekker, on the ;
activities of American oil companies in
:o.
Mr. do Bekker writes: "King Pelaez of
the oil fields, ? . ? commander in chief
of the armed force of the oil interests here,
is really in serious dang'-r."
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vised the company to Immediately pa- *v
money demanded, which the company did
and saved its property.
Gerer.il Aguilar has since been Ministe?
of Foreign Relations in the Carranza.
ernment and is now Go%-crnor of the Stat
of Vera Cruz. Felaez has pursued ?exactl
the same tactics, and if the oil compare
have been, as Mr. de Bekker alleged, main
taining Pelaez in revolution, then they als
maintained Aguilar in revolution. x?,
cases are absolutely parallel and constitute
merely the giving of money to revolution
ists to avoid worse disaster.
THE ASSOCIATION* OF PRODUCERS OP
PETROLEUM IN MEXICO.
New York, April 16, 1919.
Callousness
Explained
(Prom George Harvey's Keekly)
/~\NE of the most significant iteag 0f
recent news was contained in a dis
patch from Brussels, which stated that
"President Wilson has postponed his trip
to Belgium until after the preliminar?
peace is signed." In connection therewith
it will be recalled that he has made only
i two very brief and limited excursions to
i the devastated regions of France, and those
j by no means to the places most aorelv
stricken.
In this, it may well be believed, is to be
found the explanation of the President's
extraordinary lack of sympathy with France
ami Belgium in their sufferings from the
war. His indifference and even his callous?
ness toward those martyr nations has been
one of the most amazing features of the
whole case. He has been much concerned
for the welfare of Germany, that her peo?
ple should be. fed and that they should not
be burdened with any crushing indebted?
ness. But for the French and Belgians, who
have suffered immeasurably more than the
most vindictive have ever proposed for Ger?
many, he has had few words of sympathy
and scarcely a single wholehearted and red
blooded demand for redress.
Of course, his ears have been filled da
and night with the insidious pleadings and
verbal camouflage of German sympathizers,
who are plotting to have Germany so spared
from paying the penalty of her crimes that
she will soon be able to reassert herself
and to renew lier attack upon civilization;
while France and Belgium have been silent
in the dignity and pride of their unparal?
leled bereavement, assuming that there was
no need of 1 leading their cause to
any tribunal of humanity.
We might b.avo thought that the Presi?
dent's first impulse on goinir to Kurop?
would be to see for himself what Belgium
and Franco had suffered. An the former
head of o great uni\ i ild have
1 upon the piteous ruins of Louvain,
Am the "i of the
people, catching, as ho himself has ??o elo?
of humanity that
are i ','..?? .. -," I a h lU?d have made his
?enes where
humanity ' iffrrod martyrdom. He wai
? o bo a member of I d court
repai m to the in
jured. Should ho not have seen for himself
how great the injury had been and there?
fore how : ? ?" ould be'
Is it not a practice of jurisprudence for the
jury to viev I o e of the crime?
He did i it ' He would not do so.
He had time to travel about the Continent
haranguing the multitudes, leading brass
bands and throwing kisses to crowds which
were acclaiming him as the "pod of peace."
He had time to argue and to insist that
Germany should be permitted to enjoy the
generous terms of what would be practical?
ly a negotiated peace. But Be had no time
* i visit Belgium. His purpose was and is
to pa:, upon the claims of Belgium without
inspecting the grounds for those claims.
After he has settled '.'?::? matter, after he
aid to Belgium end France, "You ae'->
too much. Poor Germany could not pay so
much without serious deprivation and suf?
fering!" he will make an excursion to Flan?
ders fie Id . v. h< re the :row amid
at all the pother
Perhaps ?I is wise. Perhaps it is discreet.
Tf ho saw what is to be seen in some parts
of Northern France and in Belgium, his
equanimity disturbed. His sym
pathies might be i might actu?
ally feel a righteous indignation again?*
Gormany, so that Tie would join the major?
ity of the civilized world in demanding that
the fullest possible reparation he made to
the innocent victim? of that incomparable
criminal, even I 3 whole race of
Huns be bled white for a generation to
come.
But it would not do for the President,
Ices ef humanity that
nr? in the air," to be thus roused to pas?
sion, sway h;s Judgment againsi
the Hun-, and tel ''n th*
doctrine of ' &nd even to
repudiate ' ' "peace with?
out v.
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